{"id":233558,"date":"2025-08-02T00:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/2027-pdp-now-a-parastatal-of-apc-purchased-by-ruling-party-dino-melaye\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:37:11","slug":"2027-pdp-now-a-parastatal-of-apc-purchased-by-ruling-party-dino-melaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/2027-pdp-now-a-parastatal-of-apc-purchased-by-ruling-party-dino-melaye\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: PDP Now A Parastatal Of APC, Purchased By Ruling Party\u2014Dino Melaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2027: PDP Now A Parastatal Of APC, Purchased By Ruling Party\u2014Dino Melaye<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Dino Melaye has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a party infiltrated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and not a virile opposition.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former lawmaker, who recently dumped the PDP for the African Democratic Congress (ADC), accused the APC of masterminding the collapse of the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDP has been purchased by APC. PDP is a parastatal of the APC. PDP is a department of the APC. In fact, they take dates for NEC meetings and dates for when to have NWC from the [Presidential] Villa,\u201d Melaye said on Friday\u2019s edition of Channels Television\u2019s <em>Politics Today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cJust look at the number of governors in the PDP today. Are these governors acting like opposition governors? Are they playing opposition roles as governors? Those who are remaining in the PDP are holding fort for the APC.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>ADC Will Unseat Tinubu<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2027 Elections Will Be Between Nigerians And APC \u2014 Dino Melaye\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wNMr8JBCtiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Melaye, a former senator for Kogi West, left the PDP for the ADC, saying the decision became \u201cimperative due to the lack of potency and capacity by the party to deliver the Nigerian people from the prevailing political cankerworms that have eaten deeply into the fabric of our dear nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defending his decision to leave the PDP, Senator Melaye on Friday claimed the party is not acting like an opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith due respect to my uncle, Babangida Aliyu. You heard him two days ago; he said if we can tolerate Buhari for eight years, then we should tolerate <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>for another four years,\u201d the former lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that the voice of an opposition person? So, what I\u2019m telling you, in essence, is we live in precarious times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes his new party will produce a candidate capable of unseating President Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>in the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of us in the ADC need to create a comfortable, stable platform. And I believe that platform will produce a candidate that will unseat President Ahmed Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>in 2027,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I have made it a point of duty that I will not be talking about a presidential candidate or aspirant or preference for anybody until we get the party completely stabilised and organise a transparent convention that will produce a presidential candidate of the ADC who, by the grace of God, will kick.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ADC,APC,Dino Melaye,kogi west,PDP<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/01\/2027-pdp-now-a-parastatal-of-apc-purchased-by-ruling-party-dino-melaye\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2027: PDP Now A Parastatal Of APC, Purchased By Ruling Party\u2014Dino Melaye \u00a0 Senator Dino Melaye has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a party infiltrated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and not a virile opposition.\u00a0 The former lawmaker, who recently dumped the PDP for the African Democratic Congress (ADC), accused the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,287,1190,1191,251],"class_list":["post-233558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adc","tag-apc","tag-dino-melaye","tag-kogi-west","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}